Summer transfer wish list - 2018

[Japhet]

Agree with you on almost all of that. Perhaps Given the choice between a young striker like ARP (who excites me but we’d struggle to find the game time to develop and is presently a less reliable premier league goal scorer than even Llorente) and using Son there as our ‘12th’ man, I think I’d prefer to overpad our squad in midfield instead and perhaps bring in a ‘potential superstar’ there like Pulisic/Malcom.

To that extent I’d stretch to bring in both Eriksen cover (Maddison) as I see Barca making a big play and tempting him after the first year grace period in the stadium.

Also I love victor but don’t see him accepting more than another year as a reserve so I’d bring in Frenkie De Boer as his long term replacement even if to get much game time it requires shoe horning him into the sweeper role he’s now playing while he adapts to the English game...

Other than that our musings seem similar:

For a net spend of perhaps 40 million in the Bielsa style 3-3-3-1 I suspect Potch is envisioning, it gives us a youthful squad thatcould win anything:



Kane

Dele Eriksen Lamela

Shaw Dier Aurier

Davies Vert Sanchez

Lloris



Son. (Llorente+Winks)

Malcom Maddison Lucas

Sessegnon Wanyama CWP

Foyth F De Boer De Ligt

Pau


Maddison 25

Malcom/Pulisic 50

De Ligt 40

Sessegnon 50

De boer 40

200m



Rose. 35 (+px Shaw)

Sissoko. 15

Gnk. 10

Trippier. 20

Jansen. 15

Alderweireld. 50

Dembelle. 15

160

Frank De Boer is about 47 years old.

 

[dtxspurs]

@mugpunt I don't see any chance we sell Dembele. He's still so important to our team. Poch seems to prefer the 4-2-3-1, 3-4-2-1 and 3-5-2. That's what we've played the vast majority of the time. For those formations to me we don't need 3 additional attacking midfield players. Sessegnon and a striker to me is plenty.

 

[dtxspurs]

You could play Foyth on the right.

I'm not ready to throw Foyth in a game against a top side.

 

[RichieS]

I'm not ready to throw Foyth in a game against a top side.

Not even with two other CBs alongside him?

 

[dtxspurs]

Not even with two other CBs alongside him?

I'd certainly be interested to see it first before thinking it was a strong option going into the season. It's something I'd be for seeing against Brighton or West Brom just looking at the rest of the schedule.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

@mugpunt I don't see any chance we sell Dembele. He's still so important to our team. Poch seems to prefer the 4-2-3-1, 3-4-2-1 and 3-5-2. That's what we've played the vast majority of the time. For those formations to me we don't need 3 additional attacking midfield players. Sessegnon and a striker to me is plenty.

I can't remember which article it was from but I read that Poch wanted to keep Dembele even though there's only a year left on his contract and he hasn't committed to renewing yet.

 

[SpartanSpur]

Question for all you football boffins from someone who's woefully out of touch with the hottest footballing prospects from outside England, who's the player out there that closest resembles Pirlo/Modric (excluding modders himself) in terms of style of play and ability.

That's who I would like us to sign.

I think Marco Veratti at PSG is considered this player, but even Barca failed to sign him, only to lose Neymar in the other direction instead!

Modric is a pretty unique and special talent though, not easy to find.

I still think we could explore the possibility of using Eriksen this way, maybe tweaking the formation to have him in a 3 man midfield (moving the 4-2-3-1 to a 4-(1-2)-(2-1). He tends to drop deep these days anyway to get a grasp on the game.

Something like this:-

-----------Dier/Wanyama-----------
Eriksen-------------------Dele/Dembele

With two wide attackers and the lone striker in front. City are playing similar to great rewards, Eriksen would be playing the KDB role.

 

[mugpunt]

I'd be content with a Rose for Shaw and cash swap. I think Poch can get the best out of him and he can be a rotational piece with Davies. Sessegnon to rotate in with them as a wingback when we go three at the back and continue his development further as a winger the rest of the time. Bring in a top level replacement for Toby: Lenglet, Tah, De Ligt would be my top 3 choices. I think all of them have massive potential. Arp for me would be satisfactory in the striker position. I like the idea of a young player who idolizes Kane and is a Spurs fan, to me that would give him all the motivation in the world to get better and follow in Kane's footsteps. Then you bring in a midfielder who is a pass first type of player. Other than that maybe we bring back Pau Lopez on a free for a future goalkeeper/backup. That would be a perfect summer for me.

Agree with you on almost all of that. Perhaps Given the choice between a young striker like ARP (who excites me but we’d struggle to find the game time to develop and is presently a less reliable premier league goal scorer than even Llorente) and using Son there as our ‘12th’ man, I think I’d prefer to overpad our squad in midfield instead and perhaps bring in a ‘potential superstar’ there like Pulisic/Malcom.

To that extent I’d stretch to bring in both Eriksen cover (Maddison) as I see Barca making a big play and tempting him after the first year grace period in the stadium.

Also I love victor but don’t see him accepting more than another year as a reserve so I’d bring in Frenkie De Boer as his long term replacement even if to get much game time it requires shoe horning him into the sweeper role he’s now playing while he adapts to the English game...

Other than that our musings seem similar:

For a net spend of perhaps 40 million in the Bielsa style 3-3-3-1 I suspect Potch is envisioning, it gives us a youthful squad thatcould win anything:



Kane

Dele Eriksen Lamela

Shaw Dier Aurier

Davies Vert Sanchez

Lloris



Son. (Llorente+Winks)

Malcom Maddison Lucas

Sessegnon Wanyama CWP

Foyth F De Boer De Ligt

Pau







Maddison 25

Malcom/Pulisic 50

De Ligt 40

Sessegnon 50

De boer 40

200m



Rose. 35 (+px Shaw)

Sissoko. 15

Gnk. 10

Trippier. 20

Jansen. 15

Alderweireld. 50

Dembelle. 15

160

@mugpunt I don't see any chance we sell Dembele. He's still so important to our team. Poch seems to prefer the 4-2-3-1, 3-4-2-1 and 3-5-2. That's what we've played the vast majority of the time. For those formations to me we don't need 3 additional attacking midfield players. Sessegnon and a striker to me is plenty.

I hear you and if we take this year as indicative you are obviously correct but his reliability will probably continue to get worse and I suspect that Poch isn’t shy of being ruthless at some points.

Also I think that we stuck to our 4231 and to a lesser extent 3421 primarily out of pragmatically this year being that we had to adapt enough to Wembley and preemptively swapping Alderweireld and Walker/Aurier and more lately reintegration of Lamela. I have no evidence but for his buying choices but suspect that the Bielsa 3331 is his envisioned end game for all his tactical tweaking ( https://www.fmscout.com/a-marcelo-bielsa-3331-tactics-fm17.html) and that in year 4 of his management with our own stadium to call home + a now steady line up (despite the many young signings for the future I’m proposing the first 11 are all players who will now have adapted to the premier league and playing years under Poch-ball) we will see his dream team built. That’s why the emphasis on young signings who can adapt to what is a very physically demanding game.

 

[mugpunt]

Question for all you football boffins from someone who's woefully out of touch with the hottest footballing prospects from outside England, who's the player out there that closest resembles Pirlo/Modric (excluding modders himself) in terms of style of play and ability.

That's who I would like us to sign.

Frenkie De Jong of Ajax. Could become the best in that position of all time and if we could sign him we cannot miss out

 

[dirtyh]

Frenkie De Boer of Ajax. Could become the best in that position of all time and if we could sign him we cannot miss out

frenkie de jong you mean?

 

[dtxspurs]

@mugpunt I'm just not convinced we're going to drop Son for Lamela and Dembele entirely. Those two are massively important to the squad right now.

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

Not sure we see the return to a 3-man back line any time soon. When we did that last season it made sense - Poch wanted Wanyama and Dier in the line-up - but not both at CM. We also did not have a lot of AM options.

Now, we have Son, Lamela, and Lucas - and it does not make much sense to play with them all on the bench while we go with 3 CBs....

 

[mugpunt]

frenkie de jong you mean?

Indeed... my bad

 

[freeeki]

So basically we're signing three kids from Ajax and Gareth Bale?

That'll do.

 

[mugpunt]

Not sure we see the return to a 3-man back line any time soon. When we did that last season it made sense - Poch wanted Wanyama and Dier in the line-up - but not both at CM. We also did not have a lot of AM options.

Now, we have Son, Lamela, and Lucas - and it does not make much sense to play with them all on the bench while we go with 3 CBs....

The time might soon come where the same argument is made for Foyth, whoever replaces Alderweireld and Davies. With a fully fit squad like this will always be players left on the bench in accordance with the numbers of the primarily used formation. In a 3331 3 cbs for example - in our current 4231 it allows one less so it’s just Lamela and Lucas ( in addition to GKN+Edwards pre loans) on the bench. But if I’m trying to guess at the squad/formation Poch wants to build and we buy 22 players bolstered by a few kids the maths of it makes it inevitable that top players won’t be regular starters

 

[lukespurs7]

Don’t get me wrong, I rate him, but he’s 41 now mate and hasn’t played since 2008

Lol! Obvs meant his Son you wally.

 

[sammyj]

If or when do we start looking for a replacement for Hugo, dont think hes been at hes best this season

 

[Ossie85]

Agree with you on almost all of that. Perhaps Given the choice between a young striker like ARP (who excites me but we’d struggle to find the game time to develop and is presently a less reliable premier league goal scorer than even Llorente) and using Son there as our ‘12th’ man, I think I’d prefer to overpad our squad in midfield instead and perhaps bring in a ‘potential superstar’ there like Pulisic/Malcom.

To that extent I’d stretch to bring in both Eriksen cover (Maddison) as I see Barca making a big play and tempting him after the first year grace period in the stadium.

Also I love victor but don’t see him accepting more than another year as a reserve so I’d bring in Frenkie De Boer as his long term replacement even if to get much game time it requires shoe horning him into the sweeper role he’s now playing while he adapts to the English game...

Other than that our musings seem similar:

For a net spend of perhaps 40 million in the Bielsa style 3-3-3-1 I suspect Potch is envisioning, it gives us a youthful squad thatcould win anything:



Kane

Dele Eriksen Lamela

Shaw Dier Aurier

Davies Vert Sanchez

Lloris



Son. (Llorente+Winks)

Malcom Maddison Lucas

Sessegnon Wanyama CWP

Foyth F De Boer De Ligt

Pau


Maddison 25

Malcom/Pulisic 50

De Ligt 40

Sessegnon 50

De boer 40

200m



Rose. 35 (+px Shaw)

Sissoko. 15

Gnk. 10

Trippier. 20

Jansen. 15

Alderweireld. 50

Dembelle. 15

160

I assume it's Frank. 40 is too much for Ronald

 

[Ossie85]

I don't think we'll make many changes as most of you expect next window

I think a CM, and one of Malcom/Sess, and that'll be it. A CB if Toby leaves, and that's a maybe, as Dier could start to play there

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

I don't think we'll make many changes as most of you expect next window

I think a CM, and one of Malcom/Sess, and that'll be it. A CB if Toby leaves, and that's a maybe, as Dier could start to play there

I agree - but it also depends on the outs.

For example, if Rose leaves, I don't think Sessegnon is his replacement, so we would need a LB in.